Department of Health and Social Care: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 66618 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing specific (a) Sikh and (b) Jewish options for a person’s ethnic group in data collection conducted by his Department.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 22 Jul 2025
The merits of including Jewish or Sikh as an option when recording ethnicity in National Health Service data, and other issues relating to how the NHS records information on protected characteristics, are being considered by the Unified Information Standa...